Ronald McDonald House® Washington DC provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families and promote healing when children need healthcare.
We provide support to families with children who are ill or injured, birth to age 21.
Ronald McDonald House is the catalyst to create a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. We continually work to improve and expand our core programs, while also developing new services to address the unique needs of the communities we serve. We don’t do it alone. We rely on you — our donors, volunteers, staff and friends.
Research continues to show that children heal better when families can stay close, stay involved and remain part of their care.
Ronald McDonald House helps remove barriers so families can stay together during some of the hardest moments of their lives — supporting better connection, stronger participation in care and improved family wellbeing.
More than 90% of hospital leaders agree Ronald McDonald House enhances family-centered care.
Since 1979, Ronald McDonald House Washington DC has provided comfort and care to families when they needed it most.
The leadership team, including the Board of Directors, and staff, is instrumental in ensuring that the families we serve receive the assistance, care and comfort they need to be able to offer their support during their child’s time of need.
At Ronald McDonald House Washington DC we understand that no one person’s experience is the same, nor is any one person’s experience more valuable than another’s.
We actively listen and strive for justice and fairness in our decision making. We believe it is our differences that ultimately make us better able to support our families and each other. It is our individual journey through life that calls us all to be compassionate and have empathy for others.
We appreciate human complexity and acknowledge our varied experience, physical abilities, race, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity, and socio-economic factors.
As an organization, we care about each other and we live by our core values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.
